Filofteia Bășoiu, heroine in the anti-communist armed resistance in the Nucșoara area
As in most parts of the country, Romanians in Argeș and Muscel counties resisted the establishment of the communist dictatorship in various ways. The fiefdoms of liberals and peasants alike, the two counties shed their blood in the unequal struggle against the Soviet-imposed regime. On 9 August 1946, the teacher Constantin Popescu and the lawyer Gheorghe Mihai were shot dead in the courthouse in Pitești, and the leading liberal Gheorghe Șuța was murdered by the local security chief on the outskirts of Domnești. The terror unleashed by the authorities and the murders they committed were followed by the organisation of […]